Cù Huy Cận (31 May 1919 – 19 February 2005) was a Vietnamese poet, a close confidante of

Ho Chi Minh (born ; 19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969), colloquially known as Uncle Ho () among other aliases and sobriquets, was a Vietnamese revolutionary and politician who served as the founder and first President of Vietnam, president of the ...

, and signed Vietnam’s

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as Cabinet minister in the first Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and held many senior leadership positions in the Vietnamese government between 1946 and 1987. He was a close friend of

Xuân Diệu Ngô Xuân Diệu (; February 2, 1916 – December 18, 1985) was a Vietnamese poet, journalist, short-story writer, and literary critic, best known as one of the prominent figures of the twentieth-century Thơ mới (New Poetry) Movement. Herald ...

, another famous poet. His first collection of poems, ''Sacred Fire'', was published in 1938. His style changed drastically after the Vietnam Revolution, from melancholy to optimistic. His son is Cù Huy Hà Vũ, legal scholar and dissident.David G. Marr ''Vietnam: State, War, and Revolution (1945–1946)'' 2013 Page 587 "Cù Huy Cận is best remembered for his early 1940s poetry (under the pen name of Huy Cận), while Bùi Bằng Đoàn is mostly recalled today as the father of Bui Tín, ranking Communist Party editor who defected to the West in 1990."

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